[valve bouncer]

For some reason I started humming this while I was out riding the other day. I thought Johnny's effort here was pretty good though.

This one is also beaut. I think my my mum had this exact record.

Favourite one from home? There is only one real contender.

Bit more serious but a great song.

I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

So what do you like you blokes?

 

[dhmike]

good choice valve bouncer with the man in black . i have to go with slayer war ensemble .

 

[Straya]

Very poignant.

 

[maddog17]

 

[valve bouncer]

Very poignant.

Good choice there cobber!

 

[Straya]

Good choice there cobber!

No Wuccas Bruce.

 

[dan-o]

Uncle Tupelo _Train_

 

[ska todd]

'Green Fields of France' - DKM

And in a roundabouts way, 'Guns of Navarone' - The Skatalites

-ska todd

 

[narlus]

The Clash have a few good ones:

English Civil War
Something About England
Spanish Bombs

 

[MikeD]

Steve Earle...many...The Mercenary Song, Ben McCullough, Dixieland, Johnny Walker Blues, et al

Can't forget Cash's The Ballad of Ira Hayes

For pure pop awesomeness, Alice in Chains, Rooster

Ministry...Hero...must be many more, but that's all that comes to my bleary mind right now. KMFDM must have a couple too.

Can't think of any Misfits tunes to go with this, unless zombie wars are considered part of the war genre.



On the wistful front:

Tom Waits, Day after Tomorrow
New Order (not kidding!) Love Vigilantes



I'd love to hear Warren Zevon's "Bujumbura" but can't find it anywhere. Lyrics are great, though. Does "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" count?

 

[stevew]

minutemen_vietnam, political song for michael jackson to sing, king of the hill, price of paradise.....

political song for michael jackson to sing

list monitors arrive with petition
iron-fisted philosophy
is your life worth a painting?
is this girl vs. boy with different symbols?
being born is power
scout leader nazi tagged as big sin
your risk chains me hostage
me i'm fighting with my head, am not ambiguous
i must look like a dork
me naked with textbook poems
spout fountain against the nazis
with weird kinds of sex symbols
in speeches that are big dance thumps
if we heard mortar shells
we'd cuss more in our songs and cut down the guitar solos (guitar solo)
so dig this big crux
organizing the boy scouts for murder is wrong
ten years beyond the big sweat point
man it was still there, ever without you coming back around, look! coming together, for just a second, a peek, a guess at the wholeness that's way too big

vietnam

let's say i got a number
that number's fifty thousand
that's ten percent of five hundred thousand
oh here we are in french indochina
executive order
congressional decision
the working masses are manipulated
was this our policy?
ten long years
not one domino shall fall

the price of paradise

How I remember the history I have seen
I was just a young boy,the horror I couldnt forsee
All the pain that comes with war
All the scars that never heal
Here in paradise the price is cheap
Young men die for greed

Across the ocean in a land they call Vietnam
Young men dying is all it would cost
We were told and proudly believed
They would fight to keep us free
Here in America the price is cheap
Young men die for what?

My brother,the soldier was a hero who survived
He'd tell the stories of men who died without dreams
And they fight for men twice their age
The smell of death made his life change
The price of paradise is stained with blood
Why?

All pawns and puppets of flesh and bone
Will die for their leaders far from their homes
These are men who died very young
Afraid to see that their cause was unjust
Why couldnt they live for life?
Not die to survive

 

[MikeD]

The Dead Milkmen, Beach Party Vietnam (Surfin' with the Viet Cong! Roasting hot dogs with napalm!)

 

[narlus]

stevew, great call esp "the price of paradise."

 

[MikeD]

Sabbath, War Pigs?

 

[Pesqueeb]

+1 for the Dropkick Murphys version of Green Fields of France.

The Empire Strikes First and Let Them Eat War - Bad Religion
Forutnate Son - Creedence Clearwater
Handlebars - Flowbots
World Wide Suicide - Pearl Jam

 

[Serial Midget]

I like war, I like it a lot. I'm thinking Charlie Don't Surf by the Clash.

 

[Serial Midget]

minutemen_vietnam

No a war song but... the first minutemen song I ever heard on the radio sometime in the early 80s. The original video suggested war but the lyrics do not.

 

[MikeD]

Talking Heads--Life During Wartime

 

[narlus]

two songs about the aftermath of war:

Suicide - Frankie Teardrop:

Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars

 

[Dirt Bike Mike]

+2 for the Dropkick Murphys version of Green Fields of France

Offspring----Hammerhead

 

[Chromejesus]

Lucero- The War:

Drive By Truckers- The Sands of Iwo Jima:

Ben Nichols- The Kid. This song is off a concept album based around the book Blood Meridian, which is about war and the worship of war.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Sink the Bismarck, Johnny Horton
The Sands of Iwo Jima, Drive-by Truckers

 

[Serial Midget]

Dead Donuts by the Tim Horton Trio.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Iron Maiden - Aces High, Two Minutes to Midnight, The Trooper, etc.

 

[splat]

What about "lucky Man" by Emerson Lake and Palmer

And Spike Jone "Fuhrer's Face"

 

[caboverpete]

Phil Ochs

 

[scrider]

The Rugburns War.

 

[narlus]

props to JBP and Chromejesus for the DBT song...good one.

i'll add in CCR's "Fortunate Son."

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Metallica - Disposable Heroes, One and For Whom The Bell Tolls

 

[Rip]

Iron Maiden-Paschendale, The Longest Day

 

[sanjuro]

 

[sanjuro]

 

[HAB]

More overtly about religion, but ties in to religious self righteousness and foreign intervention and whatnot.

 

[JohnE]

Far away Coast- DKM

The Gauntlet- DKM

Tommy Gun- The Clash

 

[gsweet]

 

[Rip]

Homeward Bound- DKM

Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight- DKM

Last Letter Home- DKM

The Devil To Pay- Iced Earth

 

[Da Peach]

 

[stevew]

minutemen_cheerleaders

we'll talk some reason
we could look at the past
will the nation grow?
prosperity may last
can we look
at the problems ahead?
with our heads in the sand
we might as well be dead
cheer him on
the leader of the team
he'll push on through
at all cost to win
but are we free
to think for ourselves
or doomed
to repeat our mistakes?
when you hear them and call your name
can you count the lives they will take?
do you have to see the body bags
before you make a stand?
the cheerleaders
call our their names
on the sidelines
they can feel the players sweat
and i wonder
what it is they see?
all the rallies
will never set them free
can you hear them
call your name?
can you count the lives
they will take?
do you have to see the body bags
come off the plane
just a little bit
just a little bit
just a little bit too late
can you hear them
call your name?
can you count the lives
they will take?
do you have to see the body bags
before you make a stand?
can you hear them
just a little bit
just a little bit too late

 

[MikeD]

Dylan, Masters of War

 

[valve bouncer]

Some great choices there you blokes. Here's another beauty, I've included both Eric Bogle's version and The Pouges' version as Shane MacGowan does an extraordinary job and is arguably better than the orignal.

I loved this line from the Wiki on this song. Critic Robert Christgau said Shane MacGowan "never lets go of it for a second: he tests the flavour of each word before spitting it out".